For many decades the United States’ military doctrine has been to fight a “two-front war” and have the capability to sustain both war fronts.
But Lt. Col. Robert Maginnis (USA-Ret.), a senior fellow for national security at the Family Research Council, warns that the military has so deteriorated under Obama that the United States is no longer able to fight even one war.
Chad Groening and Billy Davis report for OneNewsNow, Aug. 25, 2015, that Maginnis said, “Thirty years ago, we had 350,000. Now we’re down to 60 to 65,000 and most of those are not fighters.”
The shrinkage stems from the Obama administration’s policy in 2012 to scrap the two-front doctrine and reduce the armed forces to pre-World War II numerical levels, ostensibly because of Pentagon budget cuts. (See “Independent panel calls Obama’s downsizing of military ‘dangerous’“)
But cuts have not been and are not being made to other spending, such as welfare and entitlements. At the same time, news spending items have been added, including spending on accommodating and welcoming illegal immigrants and ‘refugees’ from the Middle East. Nor does the reduction of troop levels account for why most of the remaining troops “are not fighters”.
The latter may be because of Obama’s social re-engineering of the U.S. armed forces. See:
- Most U.S. troops, vets would steer kids away from service
- Obama admin to end ban on transgenders in military
- University Army ROTC made to wear red high heels to “raise awareness” about rape
- US Air Force base in Arizona flies American flag with LGBT rainbow stripes
- 85% of U.S. military’s special ops oppose women in combat
The Military Times points out that the U.S. military reduction comes at a time when military spending in China and Russia, and even India and Australia, are increasing while the U.S. is decreasing.
In the summer of 2015, the Pentagon discovered from repeatedly losing in war games against Russia, including an actual field exercise with NATO partners, that the U.S. is not prepared for a sustained military campaign against Russia if a conflict erupts in Europe. (See “U.S. repeatedly loses in Pentagon war games against Russia”)
Lt. Col. Maginnis said a war in Eastern Europe would involve different challenges: “We’re talking, in Eastern Europe, about conventional operations, which is a different proposition, different types of weaponry and different types of tactics.”
Should war break out in Eastern Europe, Maginnis predicts Obama will be a feckless commander-in-chief: “There’s nothing that President Obama’s going to really do, other than a rather tepid response by a series of exercises that comes with some equipment, not real heavy lethal equipment.”
Maginnis is not alone in his assessment of Obama, given the signs of disaffection in the U.S. military. (See “U.S. military does not support Commander-In-Chief Barack Obama“; “US Marine Corps commandant openly blasts CIC Obama”; “Obama ignored advice of military & CIA against Bergdahl prisoner swap”)
See also:
- U.S. official says Army’s industrial base in ‘death spiral’
- U.S. Army plagued with low morale: pessimistic, unhappy, distrustful and unfit
- 70% of U.S. youth are too fat, uneducated, and criminal to serve in military
~Eowyn
